Aspects of Architectural Diffusion in Peripheral East Asia in Ancient Times

From Ancient Times to the Year 1000

10.1093/oso/9780198829058.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tim Dyson

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

East Asia ◽

Total Population ◽

Second Century ◽

South East Asia ◽

Southern Europe ◽

The North ◽

Ancient Times ◽

River Valleys ◽

Different Parts

This chapter addresses the period from the end of the Mauryan Empire to c.1000 CE. There is very little evidence for the period. Nevertheless, people probably continued to migrate into river valleys and exploit new land. As a result, populations in different parts of the subcontinent increased—albeit usually very slowly and irregularly. In the north, Indo-Aryan influences continued to grow. Further south, kingdoms like those of the Pallavas and Cholas were crucial to the process of ‘Indianization’ which, from about the second century CE, affected areas of south-east Asia. It seems unlikely that India’s people were badly affected by the so-called ‘Plague of Justinian’ which affected parts of the Middle East and southern Europe during the sixth century. The chapter considers evidence collected around 640 CE by the Chinese visitor Hsuan Tsang and suggests that it is consistent with a total population of anywhere between 30 and 85 million.

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Simultaneous auroral observations described in the historical records of China, Japan and Korea from ancient times to AD 1700

Annales Geophysicae ◽

10.1007/s00585-000-0001-6 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

D. M. Willis ◽

F. R. Stephenson

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Historical Records ◽

Magnetospheric Physics ◽

Historical Evidence ◽

Aurora Borealis ◽

Independent Observations ◽

Storms And Substorms ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Auroral Phenomena ◽

Level Of Agreement

Abstract. Early auroral observations recorded in various oriental histories are examined in order to search for examples of strictly simultaneous and indisputably independent observations of the aurora borealis from spatially separated sites in East Asia. In the period up to ad 1700, only five examples have been found of two or more oriental auroral observations from separate sites on the same night. These occurred during the nights of ad 1101 January 31, ad 1138 October 6, ad 1363 July 30, ad 1582 March 8 and ad 1653 March 2. The independent historical evidence describing observations of mid-latitude auroral displays at more than one site in East Asia on the same night provides virtually incontrovertible proof that auroral displays actually occurred on these five special occasions. This conclusion is corroborated by the good level of agreement between the detailed auroral descriptions recorded in the different oriental histories, which furnish essentially compatible information on both the colour (or colours) of each auroral display and its approximate position in the sky. In addition, the occurrence of auroral displays in Europe within two days of auroral displays in East Asia, on two (possibly three) out of these five special occasions, suggests that a substantial number of the mid-latitude auroral displays recorded in the oriental histories are associated with intense geomagnetic storms.Key words. Magnetospheric physics (auroral phenomena; storms and substorms)

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Diasporic Consciousness in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v8i12.10869 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (12) ◽

pp. 160-169

Author(s):

Dr. Durgesh Nautiyal

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

West Indies ◽

Third World ◽

Far East ◽

South East Asia ◽

Indian Diaspora ◽

Ethnic Communities ◽

The West ◽

Ancient Times ◽

The Many

The term Diaspora has multiple layers of meaning in academic circles today. The term primarily used to refer to Jewish dispersion, came to be used to refer to contemporary situations that involve the experiences of migration, expatriate workers, refugees, exiles, immigrants and ethnic communities. The Indian Diaspora can probably be traced to ancient times when Buddhist monks travelled to remote corners of Asia. During the ancient times a large number of Indians migrated to Far East and South East Asia to spread Buddhism. The issues of colonialism and slavery, insider- outsider have posed the most difficult problems in the production of identity particularly for the black and third world people. In this way, the many diasporic–literary energies work today. For example, India, Africa, Canada and the West Indies have distinct diasporic backgrounds through which the respective writers’ works echo a variety of issues.

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East Asia and Central Eurasia

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235810.013.0023 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Peter C. Perdue

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Central Asia ◽

Central Eurasia ◽

Nation States ◽

The World ◽

Global Connections ◽

Economic Interaction ◽

History Of ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Soviet Central Asia

Since ancient times, East Asia and Central Eurasia have been connected to the world. Nationalist histories, however, have focused on the internal ‘unity’ of each of the nation-states of East Asia — China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam — while Central Eurasia has been fragmented into ‘Inner Asia’ (Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Manchuria) and ‘Central Asia’ (former soviet Central Asia). These arbitrary divisions ignore similarities and interactions within Asia, and they no longer fit the post-1989 world. Globalization and nationalism have now developed together. Nevertheless, East Asia and Central Eurasia have a much longer history of cultural and economic interaction than of nationalist isolation. This article suggests way to study the global connections of East Asia and Central Eurasia. It considers state contacts, stat formation and expansion, and great divergences between nations.

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